Skye Talavera

About Skye Talavera

I lead consumer product for an ML-backed real estate platform serving 700K+ annual users across $2B in transactions. Before that, I was the first non-founder hire at an edtech startup and took the product from 0 to 1.Most recently, I shipped my company\'s first LLM assistant (cutting latency by 90% and error rates in half), founded an internal AI Lab, and built our playbook for prompt engineering and safe deployment. I\'m focused on building AI products grounded in real user needs and designed with safety as a core principle.

Experience

1. Senior Product Manager

   Referralexchange

   Jan 2026 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Built and shipped AI assistant to capture richer user context pre-match; wrote prompts with engineering and designed hybrid solution (LLM + deterministic code) that reduced latency from nearly a minute to seconds. Post-launch, iterated on safeguards to cut error rate from 12% to 5%.• Founded internal AI Lab to explore new AI applications and evaluate emerging tools; published prompt engineering/QA playbooks prioritizing output accuracy and safe deployment; mentor PMs on AI implementation.• Drive seven-figure revenue impact through UX experimentation program (~3 tests per quarter) targeting funnel conversion and post-conversion engagement, analyzing results with SQL and presenting findings through executive dashboards.

Education

• Stanford University

  Bachelor of Arts - BA, Urban Studies

  2014 — 2018

Skills

• Spanish Translation
• Listserv
• Microsoft Publisher
• Simultaneous Interpretation
• Customer Service
• Surveymonkey
• Adult and Pediatric First Aid/Cpr/Aed Certified
• Teaching
• Social Media
• Photoshop
• Organization
• Inspiration
• Management
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Coaching
• Consecutive Interpretation
• Wordpress
• Microsoft Office
• Website Administration
• Imovie
• Master Scheduling
• Event Planning
• Indesign
• Visio
• Illustrator
• Comic Life
• Microsoft Word
• Blogging